For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
DEPARTMENT. The Department of Natural Resources.
DIRECTOR. The Director of Natural Resources.
HIGHWAY, STREET, or RIGHT-OF-WAY. The entire width between the boundary lines every way publicly maintained when any part thereof is pent the use of the public for purposes of vehicle travel.
OFF-ROAD VEHICLE. A motor driven vehicle capable of cross-country travel with benefit of a road or trail, in or immediately over land, water, snow, ice, marsh, swampland, or other natural terrain. It includes but is not limited to multi-wheel drive or low-pressure tire vehicles, amphibious machine(s), ground effect air cushion vehicle of other means of transportation deriving motive power from a source other than muscle or wind. It does not include golf carts, two wheel dirt bikes, farm vehicles being used for farming, a vehicle used for military law or law enforcement purposes, construction, mining, or other industrial related vehicles use in performance of its common function or a registered aircraft and does not include for registration any other vehicle properly registered by the Bureau of Motor Vehicles, and any watercraft which is registered pursuant to state statutes.
OPERATE. To ride in or on, and to be in actual physical control of the operation of an off-road vehicle.
OPERATOR. Any person who operates or is in the actual physical control of an off-road vehicle in the town.
OWNER. A person, other than a lien-holder, who has the property or title to an off-road vehicle and is entitled to the use or possession thereof.
PERSON. An individual, partnership, corporation, the state and any of its agencies or subdivisions and any body of person, whether incorporated or not.
(Ord. 2023-02, passed 1-9-2023)